Category: Exhibition
Theme: Architecture
Tags: contemporary practice, architectural culture, design, research, mediation
Location: MUHBA Oliva Artés — C. d’Espronceda, 142-146, Barcelona
Organizer: Centre Obert d’Arquitectura / COAC
Official website: https://arquitectes.cat/content/exposici%C3%B3-mostra-darquitectura-catalana-lofici-mutant
Description: Exhibition based on awarded works from recent COAC programmes, presenting architecture as an adaptive and expanding practice that also includes research, design, mediation and artistic expression.

Category: Exhibition
Theme: Architecture
Tags: construction systems, Catalan vault, structural heritage, architectural innovation
Location: Vestíbul del Teatre de Mundet, Barcelona
Organizer: COAC
Official website: https://arquitectes.cat/ca/content/exposici%C3%B3-la-volta-catalana-de-la-tradici%C3%B3-la-innovaci%C3%B3
Description: Exhibition on the Catalan vault as a living construction system, connecting architectural history, technical knowledge and contemporary structural relevance.

Category: Exhibition
Theme: Materials
Tags: material culture, ecology, geopolitics, sustainability, design systems
Location: Disseny Hub Barcelona — Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, 37-38, Barcelona
Organizer: Disseny Hub Barcelona / Museu del Disseny
Official website: https://www.dissenyhub.barcelona/en/exhibition/matter-matters-designing-world
Description: Permanent exhibition examining design through material systems and their entanglement with ecology, extraction, geopolitics and carbon transition.

Category: Exhibition
Theme: Graphic Design & Typography
Tags: visual communication, graphic design, editorial culture, design history
Location: Disseny Hub Barcelona — Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, 37-38, Barcelona
Organizer: Disseny Hub Barcelona / Museu del Disseny
Official website: https://www.dissenyhub.barcelona/en/exhibition/do-you-work-or-design-new-visual-communication-1980-2003
Description: Permanent exhibition dedicated to graphic design and visual communication from the 1980s and 1990s, focusing on a decisive period in the field’s recent history.

Category: Exhibition
Theme: Product Design
Tags: everyday objects, design culture, urban design, collection display, local narratives
Location: Disseny Hub Barcelona — Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, 37-38, Barcelona
Organizer: Disseny Hub Barcelona / Museu del Disseny
Official website: https://www.dissenyhub.barcelona/en/exhibition/common-objects-local-stories-global-discussions
Description: Long-term exhibition exploring everyday objects as fragments of collective memory, linking local design histories to broader global discussions.

Category: Installation
Theme: Architecture
Tags: rationalist architecture, photography, Casa Bloc, urban observation, heritage
Location: Disseny Hub Barcelona — Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, 37-38, Barcelona
Organizer: Disseny Hub Barcelona / Museu del Disseny
Official website: https://www.dissenyhub.barcelona/en/node/7335
Description: Site-specific installation by Manolo Laguillo centred on the Casa Bloc, using large-format photography to reactivate the architectural and urban reading of a rationalist landmark.

Category: Exhibition
Theme: Graphic Design & Typography
Tags: editorial design, book design, typography, Swiss design, exhibition
Location: Elisava, Sala Àgora (1st floor) — La Rambla 30-32, Barcelona
Organizer: Elisava Barcelona School of Design and Engineering
Official website: https://www.elisava.net/en/agenda/
Description: A concise but highly relevant design exhibition centred on editorial form, typographic culture and the book as a designed object, connecting graphic design practice with curatorial display and design pedagogy.

Category: Exhibition
Theme: Architecture
Tags: women architects, urbanism, design history, feminist heritage, architectural culture
Location: Institut français de Barcelona — Carrer de Moià, 8, 08006 Barcelona
Organizer: Institut Français de Barcelone
Official website: https://www.institutfrancais.es/barcelona/evento/inauguracion-de-la-exposicion-les-invisibles-mise-en-lumiere-dun-heritage-architectural-feminin/
Description: Exhibition centred on the historical invisibilisation of women architects, urbanists and designers, proposing a corrective reading of architectural heritage through gender, authorship and public memory.

Category: Exhibition
Theme: Design Theory
Tags: research, bibliography, art and design education, curatorial display, academic discourse
Location: Sala Busquets, Escola Massana — Plaça de la Gardunya, 9, 08001 Barcelona
Organizer: Escola Massana
Official website: https://www.escolamassana.cat/ca/centrifugacions-ix_176338
Description: School exhibition built around research processes, bibliographic structures and the transmission of knowledge across artistic and design disciplines, with a distinctly reflective and editorial character.

Category: Exhibition
Theme: Architecture
Tags: architectural photography, archives, visual culture, form, atmosphere
Location: Altell, COAC Barcelona — Plaça Nova 5, Barcelona
Organizer: Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya / Centre Obert d’Arquitectura
Official website: https://www.arquitectes.cat/ca/exposicions/mirades-aire-els-silencis-de-la-forma
Description: Exhibition in the MIRADES cycle bringing together the photographic work of architect and photographer Jordi Mestrich with archival material from the COAC Historical Archive, framing architecture through atmosphere, perception and image.

Category: Exhibition
Theme: Architecture
Tags: architectural photography, urban space, modern architecture, visual research, city image
Location: Goethe-Institut Barcelona — Roger de Flor 224, Barcelona
Organizer: Goethe-Institut Barcelona
Official website: https://www.goethe.de/ins/es/es/ver.cfm?event_id=27181016
Description: Photographic exhibition by Arina Dähnick that approaches contemporary Barcelona architecture through light, abstraction and urban perception, making it a strong fit for the agenda’s architecture-image strand.

Category: Exhibition
Theme: Craft & Manufacturing
Tags: textile art, weaving, quilting, material culture, contemporary craft, Chilean artists
Location: Centre d’Artesania Catalunya — C/ Banys Nous, 11, 08002 Barcelona
Organizer: Centre d’Artesania Catalunya / CCAM / Generalitat de Catalunya
Official website: https://ccam.gencat.cat/ca/arees_actuacio/artesania/centre_artesania/exposicions/
Description: Dual exhibition at the Centre d’Artesania Catalunya foregrounding textile and craft practice through intergenerational dialogue, material intelligence and the persistence of hand-led making, making it a precise and valuable addition to the agenda’s craft and design strand.

Category: Exhibition
Theme: Architecture
Tags: museum architecture, Josep Lluís Sert, collection display, curatorial design, spatial reading
Location: Joan Miró Collection Rooms, Fundació Joan Miró — Parc de Montjuïc, Barcelona
Organizer: Fundació Joan Miró
Official website: https://www.fmirobcn.org/en/
Description: New long-duration presentation of the Miró Collection structured in explicit dialogue with Josep Lluís Sert’s building, making the relation between artwork, architecture and exhibition choreography central to the visit.

Category: Exhibition
Theme: Architecture
Tags: Catalan architecture, contemporary practice, exhibition survey, architectural culture
Location: Disseny Hub Barcelona — Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, 37-38, Barcelona
Organizer: Disseny Hub Barcelona
Official website: https://www.dissenyhub.barcelona/en/exhibition/seny-i-rauxa-news-catalan-architecture
Description: Exhibition surveying recent Catalan architecture through drawings, models, sketches and other project materials, with a broad overview of contemporary production.

Category: Exhibition
Theme: Design Research
Tags: speculative futures, urban imagination, exhibition design, research, Barcelona 2026
Location: Several spaces, Barcelona
Organizer: Elisava Barcelona School of Design and Engineering
Official website: https://www.elisava.net/en/agenda/elisava-x-cma26-hi-ha-altres-mons-per-venir-are-there-other-worlds-to-come/
Description: A substantial public-facing project tied to Barcelona World Capital of Architecture 2026, conceived as a design-research platform on possible futures, urban imagination and collective scenarios.

Category: Exhibition
Theme: Materials
Tags: earth construction, stone, plant fibres, ecoconstruction, material culture
Location: Institut français de Barcelona — Carrer de Moià, 8, 08006 Barcelona
Organizer: Institut Français de Barcelone
Official website: https://www.institutfrancais.es/barcelona/evento/inauguracion-de-la-exposicion-materia-del-pavillon-de-larsenal/
Description: Exhibition dedicated to contemporary architectures in earth, stone and vegetal fibres, foregrounding ecoconstruction, rehabilitation and the environmental intelligence of material choices.

Category: Exhibition
Theme: Curatorial Design
Tags: scenography, spatial installation, acoustics, display, site-specific practice
Location: Espai 13, Fundació Joan Miró — Parc de Montjuïc, Barcelona
Organizer: Fundació Joan Miró
Official website: https://www.fmirobcn.org/en/exhibitions/7361/michael-kleine
Description: Espai 13 exhibition in which scenography, acoustics, movement and enclosure become active spatial devices, making it especially relevant to exhibition architecture and display culture.

Category: Exhibition
Theme: Architecture
Tags: materiality, spatial systems, geology, exhibition design, contemporary architecture
Location: Fundació Joan Miró — Parc de Montjuïc, Barcelona
Organizer: Fundació Joan Miró
Official website: https://www.fmirobcn.org/en/exhibitions/7354/kapwani-kiwanga-changing-states
Description: Major 2026 exhibition by Kapwani Kiwanga built around materiality, economic exchange and geological time, with a strong spatial intelligence that makes it highly pertinent to architecture, display and contemporary project culture.

Category: Exhibition
Theme: Unexpected Design
Tags: immersive art, light installation, Gaudí, contemporary display, spatial experience
Location: Casa Batlló Contemporary, 2nd floor — Passeig de Gràcia 43, Barcelona
Organizer: Casa Batlló
Official website: https://contemporary.casabatllo.es/en/exhibitions/beyond-the-facade/
Description: Contemporary exhibition by United Visual Artists inside Casa Batlló, where light, movement and immersive display establish a direct dialogue between Gaudí’s architecture and contemporary spatial experience.

Category: Exhibition
Theme: Design History
Tags: modernity, decorative arts, painting and architecture, modernism, visual culture
Location: La Pedrera — Passeig de Gràcia 92, 08008 Barcelona
Organizer: Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera / La Pedrera
Official website: https://www.lapedrera.com/en/exhibitions/nabis-bonnard-vuillard/
Description: Exhibition on the Nabis movement staged within Gaudí’s La Pedrera, especially relevant to this agenda for the way it frames modernity through a dialogue between painting, decorative arts, architecture and the spatial experience of a modernist landmark.

Category: Exhibition
Theme: Design History
Tags: modern design, interior architecture, furniture, modernism, architecture and design
Location: Exhibition rooms, Fundació Joan Miró — Parc de Montjuïc, Barcelona
Organizer: Fundació Joan Miró
Official website: https://www.fmirobcn.org/en/exhibitions/7357/charlotte-perriand
Description: Major autumn exhibition devoted to Charlotte Perriand, a particularly strong addition for this agenda because it directly connects design history, interior architecture, modern furniture culture and the Miró-Sert context.

Category: Exhibition
Theme: Product Design
Tags: industrial design, design culture, awards exhibition, prototypes, Disseny Hub, contemporary design
Location: Disseny Hub Barcelona — Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, 37-38, Barcelona
Organizer: ADI-FAD / Disseny Hub Barcelona
Official website: https://www.adifad.org/premis/en/delta-awards/
Description: Officially announced by ADI-FAD as the 2026 exhibition of the Delta Awards, this summer presentation at Disseny Hub Barcelona will gather more than 200 recent products and projects, making it one of the clearest forthcoming snapshots of industrial design and design culture in Barcelona.

Category: Conference
Theme: Sustainable Design
Tags: regeneration, public space, Italian design day, architecture and design, reuse
Location: IED Barcelona — Carrer Biada 11, 08012 Barcelona
Organizer: Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Barcellona / Consolato Generale d’Italia
Official website: https://iicbarcellona.esteri.it/it/gli_eventi/calendario/idd-2026-re-design-rigenerare-spazi-oggetti-idee-relazioni/
Description: Italian Design Day 2026 event in Barcelona, focused on regeneration as a design and architectural strategy for spaces, objects and community well-being.

Category: Public Program
Theme: Architecture
Tags: guided tour, architectural interpretation, modern heritage, comparative reading
Location: Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, Barcelona
Organizer: Fundació Mies van der Rohe / Globus Vermell / Guiding Architects Barcelona
Official website: https://miesbcn.com/calendar/pavello-mies-van-der-rohe-caixaforum-visita-guiada-en-el-marc-del-cicle-passats-presents/
Description: Guided visit examining how two contemporary architectural works embody distinct design visions and how they have been reinterpreted over time.

Category: Lecture
Theme: Urban Ecology
Tags: green infrastructure, territorial project, landscape, urbanism, rebalancing territory
Location: Sala d’actes ETSAB — Av. Diagonal 649, Barcelona
Organizer: UPC School of Architecture / ETSAB
Official website: https://etsab.upc.edu/ca/actualitat-avisos/noticies/conferencia-3
Description: Academic lecture on green infrastructure and territorial design, linking landscape, urban systems and contemporary project culture.

Category: Unexpected Design
Theme: Curatorial Design
Tags: fashion film, live styling, visual culture, design education, critical fashion
Location: Mooby Cinemas Bosque / Casa Capell — Rambla de Prat, 16 / 27, Barcelona
Organizer: IED Barcelona
Official website: https://www.ied.edu/events/ied-barcelona-s-critical-perspective-on-fashion-becomes-part-of-moritz-feed-doc
Description: Public Programme spanning fashion film screenings, live styling and discussion, relevant to the agenda as a design-school event at the intersection of visual culture, staging and critical design discourse.

Category: Lecture
Theme: Graphic Design & Typography
Tags: editorial culture, photography, visual storytelling, publishing, design discourse
Location: Disseny Hub Barcelona, Barcelona
Organizer: Elisava Barcelona School of Design and Engineering
Official website: https://graphic.elisava.net/en/agenda/page/3/
Description: Public lecture within Elisava’s Masters’ Talks cycle, connecting editorial culture, photography and image-making with broader questions of visual narrative and design discourse.

Category: Talk
Theme: Architecture
Tags: urban sketchers, drawing, architectural observation, pavilion, public programme
Location: Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, Barcelona
Organizer: Fundació Mies van der Rohe
Official website: https://miesbcn.com/agenda/upcomingevents/
Description: A compact but highly coherent addition to the agenda, where drawing becomes a way of reading architecture through direct observation and shared public practice.

Category: Workshop
Theme: Architecture
Tags: drawing, observation, Gaudí, ornament, architectural interpretation
Location: Casa Vicens Gaudí — Carrer de les Carolines 20-26, Barcelona
Organizer: Casa Vicens
Official website: https://casavicens.org/activities
Description: Focused visit structured through drawing as a tool for architectural attention, especially coherent for reading Gaudí’s first house through ornament, surface, rhythm and direct observation.

Category: Seminar
Theme: Sustainable Design
Tags: frugal architecture, vernacular knowledge, rehabilitation, material sobriety, ecological transition
Location: Institut français de Barcelona — Carrer de Moià, 8, 08006 Barcelona
Organizer: Institut Français de Barcelone
Official website: https://www.institutfrancais.es/barcelona/evento/seminario-arquitectura-frugal-recursos-transmision-de-los-saberes-hacer-practicas-actuales-y-futuras-dialogo-franco-espanol/
Description: Franco-Spanish seminar on frugal architecture as a framework for material sobriety, rehabilitation, vernacular knowledge and ecological transition.

Category: Unexpected Design
Theme: Design History
Tags: Sant Jordi, books, architecture books, publishing culture, open doors
Location: Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, Barcelona
Organizer: Fundació Mies van der Rohe
Official website: https://miesbcn.com/agenda/upcomingevents/
Description: An elegant crossover between publishing culture and architectural space, where the Pavilion becomes both setting and editorial device through a public open-doors programme.

Category: Lecture
Theme: Architecture
Tags: Richard Meier, museum architecture, guided visit, architectural reading, Barcelona 2026
Location: MACBA — Plaça dels Àngels 1, Barcelona
Organizer: MACBA
Official website: https://www.macba.cat/en/activities/
Description: More than a standard guided visit, this recurring programme turns the museum itself into the object of interpretation, focusing on architecture as institution, urban insertion and exhibition container.

Category: Lecture
Theme: Urbanism
Tags: public space, plaza, urban debate, architecture, city, ArquinFAD, Mies, Michele and Miquel, Creus Carrasco
Location: Pavelló Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona
Organizer: ArquinFAD / Fundació Mies van der Rohe
Official website: https://miesbcn.com/agenda/currentevents/
Description: Conversation on the plaza as a site of encounter, celebration and collective expression, while also addressing tension, memory and contemporary urban pressures. A small-format but sharp urbanism discussion with strong editorial value.
Why it matters: Excellent fit for the agenda’s public-space and city-culture strand.

Category: Lecture
Theme: Media / Digital Culture
Tags: AI ethics, digital culture, technology, sovereignty, critical media, Casa America Catalunya, debate
Location: Casa Amèrica Catalunya, Barcelona
Organizer: Casa Amèrica Catalunya
Official website: https://www.americat.barcelona/es/apuntes-para-una-ia-etica-y-soberana-conversacion-entre-margarita-padilla-y-gabriela-arriagada
Description: Conversation between Margarita Padilla and Gabriela Arriagada on whether ethical AI is possible under current extractive and centralised technological systems. A critical media-culture event with genuine intellectual depth.
Why it matters: Adds a non-generic digital culture line grounded in critique rather than trend rhetoric.

Category: Publication
Theme: Visual Culture
Tags: publication launch, architecture books, editorial culture, Barcelona Pavilion, art intervention, Mies
Location: Pavelló Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona
Organizer: Fundació Mies van der Rohe
Official website: https://miesbcn.com/agenda/currentevents/
Description: Presentation of two publications linked to recent artistic interventions at the Pavilion, extending the site through documentation, editorial work and curatorial afterlife. Architecture here is activated through books, images and reflection.
Why it matters: Particularly strong for the agenda’s editorial and visual-culture intelligence.

Category: Workshop
Theme: Visual Culture
Tags: photography, drawing, workshop, architecture, pavilion, image-making, LOOP, CritTeam, visual research
Location: Pavelló Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona
Organizer: Fundació Mies van der Rohe
Official website: https://miesbcn.com/agenda/currentevents/
Description: Collaborative workshop of drawing and photography around the Pavilion, tied to The Grid intervention by CritTeam. The building becomes a device for image-making and spatial reading.
Why it matters: A clean intersection of architecture, visual culture and participatory research practice.

Category: Publication
Theme: Design Adjacency
Tags: volume presentation, publication launch, local creativity, design collective, Poble-sec, Mono30, graphic design, interactive design, furniture design, community publishing, generative AI, curatorial text
Location: mono30, Carrer de Margarit 30, 08004 Barcelona
Organizer: mono30
Official website: https://mono30.com/poble-sec-design-collective-mono30
Description: mono30 celebrates its first twelve months of activity with the presentation of the Poble Sec Col·lectiva 1.0 volume, a publication rooted in the creative fabric of Poble-sec and conceived as a record of the space’s first year of work. The event extends the exhibition project into an editorial form, connecting neighbourhood-scale design culture, local authorship and community publishing.

The volume is enriched by an extended curatorial text addressing the current “hot moment” of generative artificial intelligence from both an academic and curatorial perspective. The text adopts a deliberately provocative and stimulating position, offering a critical reading that makes the publication particularly compelling to engage with — either through reading or by attending the presentation.
Attendance: Registered participants only. To attend, contact via Instagram @_mono30.

Category: Public Program
Theme: Architecture
Tags: urbanism, landscape architecture, guided visits, modern heritage, public space
Location: Start at Metro L3 Mundet, Barcelona
Organizer: COAC
Official website: https://arquitectes.cat/content/visites-guiades-al-recinte-mundet-0
Description: Monthly guided programme exploring the urban, architectural and landscape dimensions of the Llars Mundet complex within Barcelona World Capital of Architecture 2026.

Category: Public Program
Theme: Digital Fabrication
Tags: robotic construction, sustainable building, prototyping, research platform, fabrication labs
Location: IAAC Pujades Labs and Valldaura Labs, Barcelona
Organizer: IAAC
Official website: https://iaac.net/robotic-construction-living-lab-2026/
Description: Year-long experimental platform on robotic and sustainable construction combining demonstrations, guided visits, research presentations, prototype showcases and public events.

Category: Unexpected Design
Theme: Architecture
Tags: museum architecture, exhibition design, contemporary art, urban culture, Barcelona 2026
Location: MACBA — Plaça dels Àngels 1, Barcelona
Organizer: MACBA
Official website: https://www.macba.cat/en/barcelona-world-capital-of-architecture-2026/
Description: MACBA’s 2026 architecture strand functions as a curatorial frame rather than a single appointment, examining the relation between art, container, exhibition and architectural experience.

Category: Workshop
Theme: Architecture
Tags: architectural education, family workshop, spatial literacy, pavilion, public engagement
Location: Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, Barcelona
Organizer: Fundació Mies van der Rohe
Official website: https://miesbcn.com/calendar/taller-familiar-explorem-el-pavello/
Description: Family architecture workshop inviting children and adults to read the Pavilion through observation, creativity and spatial exploration.

Category: Unexpected Design
Theme: Sustainable Design
Tags: timber construction, guided visits, environmental benefits, technical teams, built projects
Location: Various locations, Barcelona
Organizer: Construmat
Official website: https://www.construmat.com/en/barcelona-open-wood/
Description: A city-scale platform of guided visits to timber architecture projects, linking materials culture, environmental performance and built work in a format that is both public and professionally relevant.

Category: Round Table
Theme: Architecture
Tags: Italian-Catalan dialogue, architectural criticism, urban culture, project culture, public debate
Location: Barcelona (series venue varies)
Organizer: Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Barcellona
Official website: https://iicbarcellona.esteri.it/it/gli_eventi/calendario/aperitivi-di-architettura-italia-e-catalogna-a-confronto/
Description: A recurring 2026 platform for dialogue between Italian and Catalan architects, critics and academics, framed within Barcelona World Capital of Architecture 2026.

Category: Workshop
Theme: AI & Design
Tags: artificial intelligence, architecture education, digital methods, design tools, computational thinking
Location: Online
Organizer: UPC School of Architecture / ETSAB
Official website: https://etsab.upc.edu/ca/actualitat-avisos/noticies/rrii/ia-barcelona-2026
Description: Student-focused online workshop dedicated to the role of artificial intelligence in architecture, with clear relevance to computational design and evolving design tools.

Category: Workshop
Theme: Craft & Manufacturing
Tags: ceramics, restoration, Gaudí, ornament, material heritage
Location: Casa Vicens Gaudí — Carrer de les Carolines 20-26, Barcelona
Organizer: Casa Vicens
Official website: https://casavicens.org/activities
Description: Hands-on workshop reconnecting visitors with the ceramic language of Casa Vicens through making, ornament and material heritage, extending Gaudí’s architecture into a direct craft experience.

Category: Festival
Theme: Public Space
Tags: neighbourhood architecture, urban heritage, decentralised city, open-house format, civic architecture
Location: Various neighbourhoods, Barcelona
Organizer: 48h Open House Barcelona
Official website: https://www.48hopenhousebarcelona.org/es/presentacio-open-barri/
Description: Distributed architecture platform organised across three moments during 2026, shifting the open-house model toward neighbourhood-scale urban culture, heritage and civic participation.

Category: Public Program
Theme: Design Research
Tags: design education, open campus, guided tours, workshops, spatial design, graphic design, fine arts
Location: BAU — Carrer de Pujades, 118, 08005 Barcelona
Organizer: BAU College of Arts & Design
Official website: https://portesobertes.baued.es/en/
Description: BAU’s 2026 open days combine information sessions with guided visits to classrooms, infrastructures and workshops, offering a direct public-facing encounter with one of Barcelona’s most active design schools and its spatial, graphic and fine-arts environment.

Category: Public Program
Theme: Architecture
Tags: guided tour, FAD Awards, architectural criticism, city reading, urban heritage, Les Corts
Location: Diagonal & Les Corts, Barcelona
Organizer: ArquinFAD / Guiding Architects Barcelona
Official website: https://www.gabarcelona.com/blog/world-capital-architecture-program-i/
Description: Recurring urban tour organised in collaboration with ArquinFAD, tracing buildings that have been winners, finalists or selected entries in the FAD Architecture and Interior Design Awards, and turning the city itself into an editorial walk through architectural criteria, recognition and debate.

Category: Public Program
Theme: Architecture
Tags: guided tour, rationalism, landscape, Manuel Baldrich, Santa & Cole, Belloch
Location: Parc de Belloch — La Roca del Vallès, Barcelona
Organizer: Santa & Cole / urbidermis
Official website: https://www.urbidermis.com/barcelona-world-capital-of-architecture/
Description: Recurring guided visit to the Belloch School, the 1964 architectural complex by Manuel Baldrich, today home to Santa & Cole and urbidermis. The programme reads Belloch as a comprehensive work in which architecture, landscape and learning remain tightly interwoven.

Category: Conference
Theme: Design History
Tags: Aldo Rossi, 2C, city debate, architectural culture, transition-era urban thought
Location: Pati Manning, Barcelona
Organizer: Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Barcellona / ETSAB
Official website: https://iicbarcellona.esteri.it/it/gli_eventi/calendario/architettura-citta-e-democrazia-in-dibattito-negli-anni-70/
Description: Two-day conference revisiting the architectural and urban debates of the 1970s through Aldo Rossi and the journal 2C Construcción de la Ciudad, with strong relevance to design history, city discourse and architectural criticism.

Category: Festival
Theme: AI & Design
Tags: digital design, motion, visual culture, creativity, talks, masterclasses
Location: Disseny Hub Barcelona, Barcelona
Organizer: OFFF Barcelona
Official website: https://www.offf.barcelona/offf-schedule
Description: A major anchor event for Barcelona’s digital-visual design ecosystem, gathering international voices across design, creative technology and contemporary visual production in a compact multi-day format.

Category: Festival
Theme: Unexpected Design
Tags: fashion design, runway, special occasion design, textile culture, haute couture, Montjuïc
Location: Fira Barcelona Montjuïc — Av. Reina Maria Cristina, s/n, Barcelona
Organizer: Fira Barcelona / Barcelona Bridal Fashion Week
Official website: https://www.barcelonabridalweek.com/
Description: One of the clearest design-industry additions within this batch, BBFW transforms the Montjuïc venue into a platform for runway presentation, textile direction, styling, fashion scenography and international design visibility, with the 2026 edition explicitly framed around creative legacy and overlooked makers.

Category: Conference
Theme: Architecture
Tags: UIA, world congress, debates, lectures, exhibition programme, planet in transition
Location: CCIB, Disseny Hub, Les Tres Xemeneies, Castell de Montjuïc, Sagrada Família and other venues, Barcelona
Organizer: UIA 2026 Barcelona
Official website: https://uia2026bcn.org/
Description: The key international architecture gathering of Barcelona 2026, conceived as a multi-venue congress with conferences, debates, cultural activities and an exhibition programme under the theme “Becoming. Architectures for a planet in transition”.

Category: Workshop
Theme: Digital Fabrication
Tags: advanced architecture, computation, AI, urbanism, global lectures
Location: IAAC Barcelona / online
Organizer: IAAC
Official website: https://iaac.net/masters/global-summer-school/
Description: Multi-week summer platform on advanced architecture, computational design, AI and urbanism, combining onsite and online workshops with lectures tied to Barcelona’s 2026 architecture context.

Category: Open Studio
Theme: Craft & Manufacturing
Tags: open studios, artistic crafts, contemporary design, architecture studios, neighbourhood circuits, material culture
Location: Various studios and workshops, Barcelona
Organizer: A-FAD / FAD
Official website: https://www.fad.cat/a-fad/en/projects/8534/tallers-oberts-bcn-2
Description: Citywide open-studio programme inviting the public into Barcelona’s artistic, craft, design and, for 2026, also architecture studios, making process, material culture and neighbourhood creative ecosystems visible through direct encounter.

Category: Festival
Theme: Fabrication Labs / Maker Culture
Tags: DIY culture, workshops, masterclasses, materials, maker community, craft, participatory creativity
Location: Fira Barcelona Montjuïc — Av. Reina Maria Cristina, s/n, Barcelona
Organizer: Fira Barcelona / Handmade Festival Barcelona
Official website: https://handmadefestivalbcn.com/
Description: A relevant maker-culture addition to the agenda, the Handmade Festival returns as a participatory platform devoted to hands-on creativity, workshops, materials and learning-by-doing, with a scale and format that connect craft culture to contemporary design communities.

Category: Festival
Theme: Architecture
Tags: open buildings, urban discovery, architecture festival, guided visits, public engagement
Location: Barcelona metropolitan area
Organizer: 48h Open House Barcelona
Official website: https://www.48hopenhousebarcelona.org/es/bones-festes-i-felic-ohb26/
Description: Annual architecture festival of open buildings and guided urban discovery across Barcelona and its metropolitan area, already announced for the October 2026 weekend.

Category: Festival
Theme: Design Research
Tags: creativity, innovation, exhibitions, conferences, workshops, citywide programme, design ecosystem
Location: Various venues, Barcelona
Organizer: Barcelona Creativity & Design Foundation / Barcelona Design Week
Official website: https://barcelonadesignweek.com/en/
Description: Major annual city platform for design, creativity and innovation in Barcelona, expected again as a broad public-professional programme of exhibitions, conferences, workshops and associated events across multiple venues.

Category: Conference
Theme: Urbanism
Tags: smart cities, urban innovation, governance, mobility, technology, city systems, sustainable urban futures
Location: Fira Barcelona Gran Via — Av. Joan Carles I, 64, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona
Organizer: Fira Barcelona / Smart City Expo World Congress
Official website: https://www.smartcityexpo.com/
Description: A major late-year addition for the agenda’s urbanism strand, Smart City Expo World Congress positions Barcelona as a global meeting point for city governance, technological systems and future-oriented urban transformation, with direct relevance to public space, infrastructure and contemporary metropolitan design.

Category: Festival
Theme: Media / Digital
Tags: LOOP, video art, media art, festival, Barcelona
Location: Barcelona (multiple venues)
Organizer: LOOP
Description: International festival dedicated to video art, moving image and contemporary media practices, across galleries, institutions and independent venues.

Category: Exhibition
Theme: Design
Tags: Japan, ceramics, textile design, material culture, drawing, visual archive, Casa Asia, Palau Robert
Location: Palau Robert, Barcelona
Organizer: Casa Asia / Palau Robert
Official website: https://www.casaasia.es/actividad/exposicion-mako/
Description: Exhibition dedicated to Japanese designer and ceramic artist Mako Artigas, bringing together drawings, textile designs, ceramics, porcelain, photographic archive and documentary material. A precise design-oriented proposal where material culture, craftsmanship and visual sensibility meet.
Why it matters: A high-value Japan–Barcelona curatorial line with real relevance for design, textiles and material research.

Category: Forum
Theme: Architecture
Tags: LINA, emerging architecture, research, debate, sustainability, European platform, Fundacio Mies van der Rohe
Location: Pavelló Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona
Organizer: Fundació Mies van der Rohe
Official website: https://miesbcn.com/cat_esdeveniments/research-debate/
Description: Debate platform gathering institutions and emerging practitioners around sustainable, innovative and socially engaged architecture. A compact but serious research-oriented forum rather than a generic festival format.
Why it matters: Strong signal for experimental architecture discourse and emerging practice in Europe.

Category: Brand Watch
Theme: Architecture
Tags: lighting, furniture, books, architecture, design talks, showroom, brand watch
Location: Galería Santa & Cole Belloch / Parc de Belloch — La Roca del Vallès, Barcelona
Organizer: Santa & Cole
Official website: https://www.santacole.com/en/galeria-santa-cole/galeria-santa-cole-belloch/
Description: Santa & Cole remains one of the most culturally active design brands in the Barcelona orbit, moving fluidly between lighting, furniture, books and architecture. It is especially worth monitoring for lectures, editorial presentations and small-scale design or architecture programmes. Announcements are often released with relatively short notice; Cercle del Design will update dates when public, but it is always worth following the brand directly as well.

Category: Brand Watch
Theme: Product Design
Tags: furniture design, collectible design, product launch, designer editions, showroom, brand watch
Location: C/ Ramon Turró, 126, 08005 Barcelona
Organizer: BD Barcelona Design
Official website: https://www.bdbarcelona.com/contact/
Description: BD Barcelona Design is one of the city’s historic design houses and remains especially relevant for furniture culture, designer editions and architecture-linked product narratives. It is worth keeping under close observation for launches, presentations and showroom-based moments that may appear with limited advance notice. Cercle del Design will update dates when public, but the brand is always worth following directly.

Category: Brand Watch
Theme: Materials
Tags: textile design, rugs, material culture, showroom, design collaborations, brand watch
Location: Rosselló, 256 / Av. Diagonal, 08037 Barcelona
Organizer: nanimarquina
Official website: https://professionals.nanimarquina.com/en/pages/showroom-bcn
Description: Nanimarquina is a particularly strong address for textile design, colour, tactility and contemporary material culture. Its Barcelona showroom is worth monitoring for collaborations, capsule presentations and focused design moments that may be announced with relatively little lead time. Cercle del Design will update dates when public, but the brand is always worth following directly.

Category: Brand Watch
Theme: Product Design
Tags: outdoor furniture, architecture, showroom, design launches, contemporary interiors, brand watch
Location: C/ Aragó, 316, 08009 Barcelona
Organizer: Kettal
Official website: https://www.kettal.com/contract/en/flag-stores
Description: Kettal is a major Barcelona-linked design brand whose showroom remains relevant to outdoor furniture, architecture and contemporary interiors. It is worth monitoring for launches, presentations and spatial installations that may surface with short notice rather than through long-range calendars. Cercle del Design will update dates when public, but the brand is always worth following directly.

Category: Brand Watch
Theme: Unexpected Design
Tags: fashion, hospitality, cultural programming, music, art, design culture, brand watch
Location: Elisabets, 11, 08001 Barcelona
Organizer: Camper / Casa Camper Barcelona
Official website: https://www.casacamper.com/en/barcelona/
Description: Camper is especially worth watching in Barcelona not only through retail but through Casa Camper, a design-led hospitality space that already hosts happenings, music, art and event formats. It should be monitored for small cultural programmes, collaborations and hybrid brand events that are often announced close to the date. Cercle del Design will update dates when public, but it is always worth following the brand and the venue directly.

Category: Brand Watch
Theme: Fashion & Retail Design
Tags: minimal fashion, retail architecture, capsule events, design collaborations, flagship, brand watch
Location: Paseo de Gracia 33, 08007 Barcelona
Organizer: COS
Official website: https://www.cosstores.com/ca/fr/store-locator/spain-3/
Description: COS is worth monitoring in Barcelona for the way its stores often intersect fashion, design and exhibition-minded retail staging. Even when calendars are sparse, capsule activations and collaborations may emerge with limited notice. Cercle del Design will update dates when public, but it is always worth following the brand directly as well.

Category: Brand Watch
Theme: Craft & Manufacturing
Tags: craft, fashion, modernism, flagship, installations, cultural programming, brand watch
Location: Paseo de Gracia, 35, 08007 Barcelona
Organizer: LOEWE
Official website: https://www.loewe.com/eur/en/stores-ourcasas/casa-loewe-barcelona.html
Description: Casa LOEWE Barcelona is an especially strong address for the agenda because the store itself is housed in the historic Casa Lleó i Morera and openly frames its identity through craft, architecture and art. It is worth watching for installations, presentations and craft-led programming that may be published only shortly beforehand. Cercle del Design will update dates when public, but following the brand directly remains advisable.

Category: Brand Watch
Theme: Fashion & Retail Design
Tags: fashion, luxury retail, concept store, Barcelona retail culture, brand watch
Location: Passeig de Gràcia, Barcelona
Organizer: Santa Eulalia
Official website: https://santaeulalia.com
Description: Santa Eulalia is one of Barcelona’s historic luxury retailers and an influential concept-led fashion space on Passeig de Gràcia. Beyond its retail activity, the store periodically hosts brand presentations, capsule launches and occasional cultural events connected to fashion, craftsmanship and visual culture. While these activations are not always announced far in advance, the venue remains relevant to the broader design ecosystem of the city as a potential site for brand collaborations, installations or talks linked to fashion, material culture and contemporary retail design. Cercle del Design will monitor the venue and add specific dates when public events or installations are announced.

Category: Exhibition
Theme: Collectible Design
Tags: design exhibition, Japanese design, collectible design, furniture design, Barcelona gallery
Location: 109 Carrer Lull, Barcelona
Organizer: Side Gallery
Official website: https://side-gallery.com/exhibition/japanese-design-side-gallery-barcelona/
Description: Side Gallery presents an exhibition dedicated to Japanese design and its role in shaping modern domestic culture during the decades following the Second World War. The exhibition explores the transformation of Japanese design during the period of rapid economic growth often referred to as the Japanese economic miracle, highlighting new relationships between craftsmanship, industrial production and contemporary living. The show brings together historically significant pieces that reflect the experimental spirit and refined material culture that continue to influence international design today.

Category: Exhibition
Theme: Collectible Design
Tags: collectible design, on view, Vincent Ort, design gallery, Barcelona
Location: La Rambla 130, principal, Barcelona
Organizer: Il·lacions Design Gallery
Official website: https://www.illacions.com/visit-us/
Description: Il·lacions lists Clops i Pots by Vincent Ort as “On View” at its Barcelona gallery. As the venue works by appointment and often presents collectible design in a quieter editorial format, Cercle del Design records the exhibition as an active on-view presentation worth monitoring for any associated opening, conversation or related activation that may be announced later.

Category: Exhibition
Theme: Collectible Design
Tags: collectible design, on view, Laia Amigó, design gallery, Barcelona
Location: La Rambla 130, principal, Barcelona
Organizer: Il·lacions Design Gallery
Official website: https://www.illacions.com/visit-us/
Description: Il·lacions currently lists Terra by Laia Amigó as “On View” in Barcelona. The gallery’s programme sits strongly within collectible design and material-led experimentation, making this an appropriate inclusion for Cercle del Design as an active gallery presentation, even where a fixed public end date is not presently specified.

Category: Exhibition
Theme: Collectible Design
Tags: collective exhibition, collectible design, on view, design gallery, Barcelona
Location: La Rambla 130, principal, Barcelona
Organizer: Il·lacions Design Gallery
Official website: https://www.illacions.com/visit-us/
Description: Il·lacions lists Una Cambra Pròpia as a collective exhibition currently on view at the gallery. Because collective presentations at Il·lacions often articulate the wider curatorial identity of the space, this entry is relevant to the agenda as a live reference point within Barcelona’s collectible design scene.

Category: Exhibition
Theme: Contemporary Art & Design Adjacency
Tags: gallery exhibition, Ana Genovés, contemporary art, Barcelona gallery, collectible context
Location: Barcelona
Organizer: Galería Alegría
Official website: https://www.galeriaalegria.es/
Description: Galería Alegría lists a solo exhibition by Ana Genovés running from 31 January to 28 March 2026. While the gallery sits primarily in contemporary art, it remains relevant to Cercle del Design for its crossover value within Barcelona’s wider visual culture and collectible ecosystem.

Category: Exhibition
Theme: Contemporary Art & Design Adjacency
Tags: opening, exhibition, Anne-Lise Coste, Barcelona gallery, visual culture
Location: Méndez Núñez 14, Barcelona
Organizer: Prats Nogueras Blanchard
Official website: https://pratsnoguerasblanchard.com/en/exhibitions/16-44
Description: Prats Nogueras Blanchard presents 16:44, a solo exhibition by Anne-Lise Coste in its Barcelona space. The show is part of the city’s current gallery programme and is relevant to Cercle del Design as a nearby point of contact between contemporary exhibition culture, installation language and the broader visual ecosystem of Barcelona.